Beyond Katrina

Hurricane recovery issues to be reviewed by legislative panel

The Louisiana Legislature has created a new panel of mostly New Orleans-area lawmakers to provide scrutiny of storm recovery ...Continue at nola.com

Why You Should Start a Company in... New Orleans

PhotoCredit: Matthew D. White                                                              

Thumbs Up. Fast Company featured New Orleans today in part 8 of their series of entreprenurial hubs.  Read it here.

Jobs at stake in Louisiana as NASA shifts gears

The future of Louisiana's gateway to space is uncertain after a sudden shift in the space program directed by President Obama. Continue here

Dr. John Suggests New Orleans As Your Next Vacation Destination

Find out more and give it a listen at New York Magazine, here.

Duncan's Katrina comment blasted

The president of the state’s top school board Tuesday criticized comments by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan that Hurricane Katrina was the “best thing” that happened to the education system in New Orleans.  Continue here...

N.O. area construction employment falls 6 percent

The New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner area lost more construction jobs in December 2009 compared with December 2008 than any other metropolitan statistical area in Louisiana. Continue at New Orleans City Business...

La. awarded nearly $475M in Katrina hospital dispute

A federal arbitration panel has awarded Louisiana $474.7 million in compensation for hurricane-related damage to Charity Hospital. The decision is a major victory for state officials, who fought a bitter battle with FEMA over the money to rebuild the hospital that served poor New Orleans residents before Hurricane Katrina. Continue here

THE END OF THE GREAT RIVER

 

Photographs of the Lower Mississippi River Delta

Port of New Orleans
1350 Port of New Orleans Place
New Orleans, LA 70160
504-522-2551
Mon – Fri 8-5

Dec. 1, 2009 – Dec. 18, 2009

Reception - Dec. 10, 2009, 4:00 to 6:00 pm

This photo-essay and exhibit features fine art landscape images of the Mississippi River Delta, from Port Sulphur in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana south to the end of the three passes that drain the river into the Gulf of Mexico -- Pass a Loutre; South Pass; and Southwest Pass. This delta, full of history, culture, and industry, is sparsely populated and rarely seen in detail by outsiders, but is a landscape of vast, simplistic beauty.  Photography for this project began in the spring of 2000, made on both black and white film and digital color, continuing to the present day.

 The exhibit opens in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans, Louisiana coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with galleries, museums and photographers citywide. The exhibit includes 12 images from Matthew White's Mississippi River Delta collection and will be displayed in the lobby of the Port of New Orleans Administrative Building. A reception will be held December 10, 2009 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The exhibit closes December 18th and will travel afterward.

To see previews of photographs from the exhibit, please follow this link.

For more information, to inquire about sponsorship, or to book this exhibit, please contact Margaret Saizan, at msaizan@bigvisionmedia.com or 225-229-7399. Further updates will be posted at this site and at  Matthew White's exhibit page at the PhotoNOLA website as additional information  becomes available.

 

New Orleans, Ravaged by Katrina, Hit Again by Subprime Crisis

Here is a peak into the struggles Katrina survivors face on a daily basis via the lens of the sub-prime mortgage crisis in New Orleans. Check it out here.

Nagin Suspects a Plot To Keep Blacks Away

Yikes. WaPo's Hamil R. Harris has penned an article covering remarks made by New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin at a dinner sponsored by the  National Newspaper Publishers Association. Now unlike the "chocolate city" remark, I don't see any direct quotes in the article that support the newspaper's headline "Nagin suspects a plot to keep blacks away". But you can read it and decide for yourself, here.